Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Heid. Hs. 1500 III A-96,48 Jastrow, Morris; Bezold, Carl [Recp.]: Briefe von Morris Jastrow an Carl Bezold: Brief von Morris Jastrow an Carl Bezold (Philadelphia, 27.2.1906)

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Philadelphia, Penna.,Feb’y 27th, 1906.
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Professor Dr.Carl Bezold,
University of Heidelberg,
Heidelberg, Germany.
Dear Doctor Bezold:-
In preparing a paper for the coming meeting of the Oriental
Society, I am in need of some information regarding Ashurbanapal*s libra-
ry that I cannot find in printed accounts. Can you, perhaps, help me
out? Khat I want particularly to know is whether the 14,230 KE.
tablets in your catalogue represent the tablets found by Layard and Rassam
and whether all of these are supposed to have come from one or two rooms
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in the same palace, or whether they come from different palaces. The DDT.
do not represent, as it appears from the catalogue, tablets havdsg-cowe
exclusively from Kouyunjik, but do such tablets of this collection as did
come from Kouyunjik belong to the same collection as the Kir. tablets, that
is were they found in the same place? The same in regard to the SSm.
collection^ I should like to know whether these 2485 tablets, ( excluding,
of course, those referred to on page 1952 of your catalogue), come from
the same room or rooms as the KK. What I wish definitely to ascertain
is whether the letters and reports, which are distinctly Assyrian archives,
and the private contracts included in your catalogue, belong properly to
Ashurbanapal’s library, or whether they represent tablets found in other
parts of the mound. If so, where were tablets found at Kouyunjik outside
of the room or rooms discovered by Layard and Rassam in Ashurbanapal’s pal-